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- Fri Dec 07, 2007 11:05 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Double Cluster in Perseus - Stars (APOD 07 Dec 2007)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1954
- Tue Dec 04, 2007 12:42 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Gibbous Europa (APOD 02 Dec 2007)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5942
- Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:18 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Gibbous Europa (APOD 02 Dec 2007)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5942
- Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:08 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Gibbous Europa (APOD 02 Dec 2007)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5942
- Mon Dec 03, 2007 9:25 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Gibbous Europa (APOD 02 Dec 2007)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5942
It looks like a natural regenerating solid over fluid surface to me. Or, an arthroscopic view of an enlarged bladder. :wink: Ahem! Where did you qualify, doctor? Arthron (Greek) a joint >> Arthroscope Kustis (Greek) a bladder >> Cystis (Latin) >> Cystoscope Of course if you push hard enough on the ...
- Sun Dec 02, 2007 11:16 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Gibbous Europa (APOD 02 Dec 2007)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5942
- Sun Dec 02, 2007 10:15 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Comet Holmes from Hubble Space Telescope (APOD 28 Nov 2007)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9848
- Sun Dec 02, 2007 12:08 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Comet Holmes from Hubble Space Telescope (APOD 28 Nov 2007)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9848
- Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:40 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Tunguska: The Largest Recent Impact ... (2007 Nov 14)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12991
- Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:20 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Most disappointing APOD ever (16 Nov 2007)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3681
It's not that the background was tainted, it couldn't be, but that such a dramatic image as that white streak turned out to be so prosaic. It looks so exciting! The design, an accident obviously but a seredipitous one, is excellent, the star-points, the bright and dim clouds and shapes, with that st...
- Fri Nov 16, 2007 6:05 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Most disappointing APOD ever (16 Nov 2007)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3681
Most disappointing APOD ever (16 Nov 2007)
Today, 16th November 2007, the APOD is the most disappointing ever, real bathos. A splendid starscape, with nebulae, stars large and small (to the eye) and luminous dust clouds. And across it a white streak, narrow, pointed, as dramatic a feature as you could wish for. It has to be a comet or .........
- Fri Nov 16, 2007 5:50 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules (APOD 15 Nov 2007)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5179
SF - life in a globular cluster. Well, not quite, but Asimov did write 'Nightfall'. As to what it might look like from inside a globular cluster, see: http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/common/images/wallpaper/Globular_Art/globular-800.jpg Lots more lovely images there too! Nightfall Spoiler Alert! A story ...
- Tue Nov 13, 2007 1:22 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Comet Holmes in Outburst (APOD 26 Oct 2007)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 12576
... His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth..... Ohhh I just couldn't resist. I had to Google that - Revelations 12:1-17 see: http://www.westminsterstpauls.ca/church/file.asp?SER_ID=72 Or of course consult your Bible. Fierce stuff! But a reasonable description...
- Thu Nov 08, 2007 6:41 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Comet Holmes in Outburst (APOD 26 Oct 2007)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 12576
- Wed Nov 07, 2007 10:30 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Comet Holmes in Outburst (APOD 26 Oct 2007)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 12576
- Tue Nov 06, 2007 10:00 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Comet Holmes in Outburst (APOD 26 Oct 2007)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 12576
YeeeeeeeeeeeeHA!orin stepanek wrote:The tail has come! :P http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071105.html; Yah!
Orin
Am I a prophet or am I a prophet?
John
- Sat Nov 03, 2007 9:02 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Comet Holmes in Outburst (APOD 26 Oct 2007)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 12576
Today's APOD (3/11/7) makes the point that the comet is receding, tail first, and happens to have the tail pointing directly away from Earth. Many comets have two tails, one dust, the other plasma (?- electrically charged, anyway) that curves. If we can't see that curving tail, then Holmes doesn't h...
- Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:47 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD for 30 Oct 2007 not astronomy related
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7038
- Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:05 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD for 30 Oct 2007 not astronomy related
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7038
- Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:52 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD for 30 Oct 2007 not astronomy related
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7038
Seems that APOD has just acquired a skittish trait.
See the previous day's APOD (http://www.afscme.org/issues/1363.cfm 29th Oct)) and click on the 'sunglasses' link in the last line.
John
See the previous day's APOD (http://www.afscme.org/issues/1363.cfm 29th Oct)) and click on the 'sunglasses' link in the last line.
John
- Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:49 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Comet Holmes in Outburst (APOD 26 Oct 2007)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 12576
- Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:04 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Hole in the clouds? What is this?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3963
Don't make your self more ridiculous than you are already, CC. A single Google Image search for 'contrails' found the pic on this webpage as second hit. It serves as an example of typical contrails, to show how ill thought is your remark. http://www.scienceblog.org/community/modules.php?op=modload&a...
- Wed Oct 24, 2007 1:22 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Colombo Mack, surely? (APOD 24 Oct 2007)
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1418
Colombo Mack, surely? (APOD 24 Oct 2007)
Great picture, but surely that last gap before the D ring is named after the World's Greatest Detective?
"Just one more question....."
John
"Just one more question....."
John
- Fri Oct 19, 2007 5:31 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Hole in the clouds? What is this?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3963
gordo, What spledid pics! The last on your website, in blue (moonlight?) are truely weird. But could not this be both 'natural' and the result of a passing aeroplane/ The first above appears to have a straight trail along the cloud before it goes through, and the central wisps seem to extend off in ...
- Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:58 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Iapetus, WHITE on BLACK (APOD 19 Sep 2007)
- Replies: 39
- Views: 14272